Object of the month


2014

Jakub Bauernfreund - Still Life with Fruit and Torso

The end of this October marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of the painter Jakub Bauernfreund. He was one of several Jewish students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague who studied in the atelier of the painter and former member of the...

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September 2014

Yom Tov Lipmann ben Nathan Heller: Megillat Eivah (Scroll of Adversity)

The first of September 2014 (6 Elul 5414) marks the 360th anniversary of the death of Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1578–1654), one of the most important rabbis of the 17th century.

Heller was born in Wallerstein,...

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2014

František Zelenka, architectural design for the Jewish Museum's exhibition in the Klausen Synagogue 1943

At the start of August 1942, the Prague Jewish Community's Department for Rural Affairs published a circular, which ordered the Jewish communities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to send liturgical objects from synagogues, books and...

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2014

Alfréd Justitz

July 19 of this year marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of Alfréd Justitz, who was a leading figure of Czech Modernism. Next to Otto Gutfreund (1889–1927), Justitz was the Czech Jewish artist most actively engaged with the domestic...

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2014

Torah mantle

Commemoration of the beginning of the First World War Acquired by the museum in 1942–1944 from the 'Moravská Ostrava' collection point. Jewish Museum in Prague – Sub-collection of Judaic Textiles.

The heir to the throne...

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2014

Portrait of Rabbi David Oppenheim (1664-1736)

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of Rabbi David Oppenheim. He was born in Worms, where his father Abraham was the leader of the Jewish community. David's uncle Samuel Oppenheim was an imperial court banker in Vienna and...

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2014

Tefillin

Tefillin (also called phylacteries) are a set of small cubic leather boxes with leather straps attached to them. They contain four hand-written biblical texts on parchment strips and are worn during weekday morning prayers – one on the...

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2014

Hermína Ledererová and the Terezín Family Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

The 8th of March 2014 marks the the 70th anniversary of what can be called the largest single murder of Czechoslovak citizens during the Second World War. Hermína Ledererová was one of the prisoners who was deported to the Terezín Family...

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2014

The Simon Abeles Case

A record of the Inquisition trial of Lazar Abeles and Löbl Kurzhandl who were accused of murdering Simon Abeles (Lazar's son) to prevent his conversion to Christianity. The criminal file on the false charge of 'hatred for the faith' (ex...

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2014

Clapperboard

This clapperboard was most probably used during the filming of Daleká cesta (The Long Journey / The Distant Journey), the 1949 movie debut of Alfréd Radok, one of the most important Czech theatre and film directors of the latter half of...

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